This is what data from the Zoe Covid study, lead by King’s College London’s Professor Tim Spector, says as schools go back and the UK makes its way into autumn and the winter beyond.
When the Zoe study published its video on the 8th September, there were 112,00 thousand new Covid cases meaning that one in 44 people in the country had COVID-19. According to the dataset, the number of new cases grew to around 122,823 on the 11th September.
In further discussion of the current state of the virological landscape in the UK, Professor Spector said: ““Rates of Covid are starting to increase again with BA5 still the dominant variant.”
Furthermore, Professor Spector added that, as with earlier waves, that the rise was beginning with young people “before it kicks off in older age groups.” Whether this is because of Omicron BA.4.6 is yet to be known.
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